A Kansas City family is crediting a neighbor with helping rescue two children from a house fire.

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The Sollars said their car caught on fire in the garage about 8 p.m. Thursday, but they were unaware of the fire.

A neighbor who lives across the street saw the flames and pounded on the family's door, yelling for them to get out.

KMBC's Cliff Judy reported that a teenage girl opened the garage door and she and her father were overcome by the smoke.

The family said the neighbor ran up the stairs and got a 6-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy out safely.

"Our smoke alarms hadn't gone off yet because the smoke hadn't reached the main portion of the house. But they were all going off eventually. But it would have been too late because that smoke went so fast," said Pam Sollars.